Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The world's of snowboarding and snowmobiling have a lot in common, beyond the common wish that we'd both thought of more succinct names for our activities when they were invented. However both things come from very different backgrounds which keeps the cultures distinct in a few very specific ways. Because snowmobiling harks from the world of motoring it does have the unfortunate propensity to embrace a few things snowboarding wouldn't touch, like the use of shitty graphics, the addiction to three letter acronyms and what we're looking at today, the objectification of women. To demonstrate that difference let's take a look at the output of Snowmobile Calenders. Maybe this is the real reason why Jeremy Jones chooses to walk everywhere...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
In our ongoing quest to categorise the internet of snowboarding, this week we've pulled together 18 of the best snowboard event posters we can find. It turns out that half of them are for banked slaloms, a huge over-representation of a type of event that makes up just a dinky proportion of all snowboarding events....